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HTML lets you specify metadata – information about a document rather than document content -in a variety of ways. The META element can be used to include name/value pairs describing properties of the HTML document, such as author, Expiry Date, a list of key words, author etc.

The <meta> tag is an empty element and so does not have a closing tag, rather, <meta> tags carry information within attributes, so you need a forward slash character at the end of the element.

Metadata provided by using meta tag is a very important part of the web. It can assist search engines in finding the best match when a user performs a search. Search engines will often look at any metadata attached to a page – especially keywords – and rank it higher than another page with less relevant metadata, or with no metadata at all.

Adding Meta Tags to Your Documents:

You can add metadata to your web pages by placing <meta> tags between the <head> and </head> tags. You can include the following attributes:

Attribute

Description

Name

Name for the property. Can be anything. Examples include, keywords, description, author, revised, generator etc.

content

Specifies the property’s value.

scheme

Specifies a scheme to use to interpret the property’s value (as declared in the content attribute).

http-equiv

Used for http response message headers. For example http-equiv can be used to refresh the page or to set a cookie. Values include content-type, expires, refresh and set-cookie.

NOTE: Core attributes for all the elements are discussed in next chapter.

Meta Tag Examples:

Let’s see few important usage of Meta Tags.

Specifying Keywords:

We specify keywords which will be used by the search engine to search a web page. So using following tag you can specify important keywords related to your page.